Successful management of a thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a two year old child using a thoracic epidural blood patch

Andrew David Franklin; Stephen Robert Hays

doi:10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.11.012

Successful management of a thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a two year old child using a thoracic epidural blood patch

J Clin Anesth. 2013 Jun;25(4):331-4. doi: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.11.012. Epub 2013 May 7.

Authors

Andrew David Franklin¹, Stephen Robert Hays

Affiliation

¹ Division of Pediatric Anesthesiology, Department of Anesthesiology, Monroe Carell Jr. Children's Hospital at Vanderbilt, Vanderbilt University School of Medicine, Nashville, TN 37232, USA. [email protected]

PMID: 23810200
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclinane.2012.11.012

Abstract

A case of persistent thoracic cerebrospinal fluid cutaneous fistula in a toddler following radiographically confirmed epidural catheter placement is reported. Treatment of the fistula with a thoracic epidural blood patch was successful.

Keywords: Anesthesia, neuraxial; Epidural blood patch; Epidural catheterization: complications; Fistula, cerebrospinal cutaneous; Pediatrics.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Analgesia, Epidural / methods
Blood Patch, Epidural*
Catheterization / adverse effects
Child, Preschool
Cutaneous Fistula / cerebrospinal fluid
Cutaneous Fistula / etiology
Cutaneous Fistula / therapy*
Female
Humans
Treatment Outcome